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Following last week's "Day of Disruptions" during which main traffic arteries were blocked by protesters demonstrating against the government's proposed judicial reforms, another day of protests is scheduled for this Thursday, this time at Ben Gurion Airport.

On the 13th of Adar (sometimes the 11th – see explanation below), the Fast of Esther is observed in commemoration of the Fast observed by Mordechai and Esther and all Israel. On that very day, the enemies of the Jews had planned to subjugate and destroy them. The opposite, however, occurred and the Jews ruled over their enemies. This year, the fast is observed on Monday, March 6, 2023.

The Machon Meir Yeshiva in Jerusalem has announced the inauguration of the "Torat Eretz Yisrael Digital Library" https://machonmeir.net/torat-eretz-yisrael/ as a new addition to their website in an effort "to spread the unique light of Torat Eretz Yisrael to the English-speaking world."

The Biden administration is concerned that Israel might attack Iran's nuclear sites without notifying Washington ahead of time, according to Ynet's military analyst, Ron Ben-Yishai.

Tens of thousands of Israelis are expected to participate in Megilla readings for the Purim holiday, taking place in hundreds of communities throughout Israel. Led by Tzohar and the Ohr Torah Stone organization, the annual program will include new locations this year in Azrieli Malls, where actors will act out the Purim story, aiming to make the holiday more accessible for the hearing-impaired,...

ח"כ צבי סוכות מזהיר: איימן עודה צודק, זו מהות המאבקדוברות

* Translation by Yehoshua Siskin

There is a Grammy Award for just about every kind of music — from pop to metal to New Age to Contemporary Christian — but there's no Jewish category. Two Jewish musician friends hope to change that.

It was never easy to be a Jew. Even nowadays, with a Jewish state and army, Israeli ambassador Dan Gillerman exclaimed in a speech to the UN General Assembly, "Thank God that the fate of Israel and of the Jewish people is not decided in this hall!"

MK Tzvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism) has put his parliamentary immunity as a Knesset member to use and established his parliamentary office in the community of Evyatar in Samaria.

Yair Netanyahu, the son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has taken to Twitter to express his disgust with the behavior of protesters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, after his mother, Sara, was trapped inside a hair salon for over three hours due to a mob of over a thousand left-wingers who had gathered outside after learning of her presence.

Adults have a far higher risk of being diagnosed with heart, skin, and psychiatric conditions for at least the first three months after receiving a COVID vaccine shot, according to a peer-reviewed study of almost 300,000 people in California that was published in Nature Cardiovascular Research.

Two Iranian warships docked in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday after the Brazilian government granted permission despite pressure from the United States to bar them.

They call them "settlers", the hawks who do not want to lower their wings, the most "illegal" inhabitants of the earth, who UN resolutions, Europe, Jihadists and American wokes have always tried to drive away from their homes. Everyone talks about Israel, few with Israel, even fewer with "the settlers".

Mourners gathered in Ra'anana in central Israel Wednesday afternoon to pay their last respects to Elan Ganeles, the 26-year-old American man who was murdered in a terrorist shooting attack on Route 90 near the Dead Sea on Monday.

The European Union on Tuesday condemned the recent string of Arab terror attacks against Israeli Jews, while also castigating rioting by Jews in Arab villages in Samaria.

If we are honest — which most of the world is not when it comes to Israel and Jews — we need to recognize that Jewish rioting in Huwara is against the law.

Midday on a mild, almost hot Monday in mid-December, and the muezzins of West London were chanting the glory of Allah and how there was no other God…". Thus opens "1985", the prophetic novel by Anthony Burgess, the author of "A Clockwork Orange". He wrote it in 1978 and it looks like the portrait of Europe in 2023…

A Coalition MK praised Jewish rioters who torched cars and buildings in the Arab village of Huwara in Samaria overnight, hours after a terrorist murdered two young Israeli men in Huwara.

The US Department of Energy has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely came from a laboratory leak in China, CNN reported on Sunday, citing a newly updated classified intelligence report.

She was born with a double diaphragm, and will soon be celebrating her bat mitzvah, weighing barely 55 pounds. But despite a medical history that can compete with long-time hospital patients of retirement age, she finally has a chance to be like everyone else. The 12-year-old faces reality head-on: "All that separates me from staying alive is money- an awful lot of it."

A fresh conflict arose in the coalition after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to remove the bill imposing the death penalty for terrorists from the agenda of the Ministerial Committee for Legislation and to hold a discussion on the issue in the cabinet instead.

An emergency summit will be held in Jordan this morning (Sunday), in an attempt to end the recent security escalation between Israel and terrorist groups in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem, which has seen 11 Israelis murdered in terrorist attacks in Jerusalem so far this year. The hope is to reduce tensions ahead of the Muslim month of Ramadan, which has often seen an increase in violence.

The Government of Israel has been ordered to formulate and submit to the High Court of Justice by April 2 its plan for demolishing and evacuating the illegal Bedouin encampment of Khan al-Ahmar – compliance with which could have serious international repercussions and jeopardize negotiations begun on January 24 to create the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine.

The power-sharing crisis between Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Minister in the Defense Ministry Bezalel Smotrich has come to an end. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Gallant, and Smotrich signed a document of understanding on Thursday regarding the division of responsibility in the Defense Ministry between the Defense Minister and the additional minister regarding the Civil Administration...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a Republican US Senate delegation led by Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem.

Rep. David Cicilline, the Jewish Rhode Island Democrat and influential pro-Israel progressive, is leaving Congress.

Senior Archbishops called on Catholics from around the world to gather together to actively help fight the rise of Antisemitism at an event held Tuesday night.

Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, on Tuesday took a swipe at Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as she defended her proposal for mental competency tests.

The prominent German Reform rabbi who was found to have abused his authority at the seminary he ran also appears to have plagiarized a portion of his 1992 dissertation.